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The officer in question was a huge pithecoid lout of a creature, with a wooden face and a receding forehead, and his accuser whom he had arrested the preceding evening was a little grig of a red-headed man, obviously respectable, and almost incoherent with rage. The anger of the little red-headed man was but natural, for he had just come out from a night in the station-house.
Governor Morris, whose anti-revolutionary and conservative leanings made him the friend and confidant of the royal family, writes to Washington on January 1790: "If only the reigning prince were not the small-beer character he is, and even only tolerably watchful of events, he would regain his authority," but "what would you have," he continues scornfully "from a creature who, in his situation, eats, drinks, and sleeps well, and laughs, and is as merry a grig as lives.
I had always been a little off-hand with him, for I had never much liked him, so I had to keep on the same manner. He was as merry as a grig, full of chat and very friendly and amusing.
Sir Charles puffed at his pipe and then: "They were only together three weeks," he said. "And during that time she managed to cram more knowledge of everything into the boy's head than you and I have got in a lifetime. Give you my word, Grig, when he was off his chump in the fever, he raved like a poet, and an orator, and he was only an ordinary sportsman when he left home in the spring!
"Dammee, sir, when I lugged out my barkers, and talked of fighting across the mess-room table, Grig turned as pale as a sheet, or as " "Or as you used to do, Attwood, when Swishtail hauled you up," piped out little Hicks, the foundation-boy.
"Well," said Gregory softly, "I must go and see this man." "Is it really necessary, Grig, to see him at all? I mean if you've made up your mind " Gregory ran his hand through his hair. "It's only fair, I think!" And crossing the hall, he let himself out so quietly that no one but Mrs. Pendyce noticed he had gone.
Grig Junr.," more, I am inclined to think, from his desire to have his little joke than from mere inaccuracy, for he must have known the correct name of his purchaser. But Mr. Greg, Jun., was only just twenty-one when he bought the property, and the expression "as merry as a grig" running in Lamb's mind might have proved irresistible to him.
'Tom had no wish to disturb him, having nothing particular to say; but he was so uncommonly amazing, that the old gentleman got impatient, and determined to give him an electric shock to bring him to "for you must know, Mr. Grig," he says, "that we always keep a strongly charged battery, ready for that purpose."
"Any price any price, Grig!" Then the old man went on, "If Henrietta only knew! She thinks the world of the youngster, you know no one could help that but what if she knew? Paul's been mighty cautious. I often laugh when I see them out together him and the Boy and think what a sensation one could spring on the public by letting the cat out of the bag. And the woman would suffer.
I guess he didn't half like that are word Popish priest; it seemed to grig him like; his face looked kinder' ryled, like well water arter a heavy rain; and said he, Mr. Slick, says he, your country is a free country, aint it? The freest, says I, on the face of the airth you can't "ditto" it nowhere.
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